Lothar Meisel's Quartet

NMM 5879 is the cello in a quartet of instruments at the NMM made by Lothar Meisel (see also NMM 5876, 5877, and 5878).

Soundholes

Technical Information

Inscriptions:

Printed in brown ink on paper label with lined texture and wavy-line border, the location, last two digits of year, and serial number written in black ink, signed "Lothar Meisel" in blue ballpoint pen over label text: [bird on branch] K. Lothar Meisel [KLM monogram over lyre] / Violinmaker and Repairer / from Klingenthal, Germany / OWATONNA 1978 No: 1 / MINNESOTA / MEISEL 1977-78. The bird on the label represents the family branch, known as the "Bird" Meisels.

Back: two-piece, quarter-cut maple: medium curl descending from center joint; maple dowel through back into top block; two maple dowels through back into bottom block, one on each side of center joint, spaced 27 mm apart.